Updated: September 26, 2013, 12:00 AM
In pictures: Different ways of women wearing niqab from around the world
Unidentified women are seen wearing a niqab during a demonstration outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague, Netherlands. AP Photo / Fred Ernst, File
A woman wears a full face Niqab on the streets of Blackburn, England. Christopher Furlong / Getty Images
Dubai- A woman's niqab flutters in the wind at Souk Madinat Jumeirah. Sarah Dea/ The National
A Kuwaiti female wearing a niqab. AFP PHOTO / Yasser Al-Zayyat
Imen Mimouni and Soumaya Jabbari - two of the students asking to be able to attend classes and sit exams while wearing the niqab - sit in the foyer of the administration building at Manouba University on 24 January 2012. Lindsay Mackenzie for The National.
Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS - CCIS) member Nora Illi, one of the few Swiss women wearing the niqab. AFP PHOTO / Fabrice Coffrini